UNLABELLED Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is a rare disorder. We present a case of a 55-year-old man who was awakened by severe pain in the neck and shoulders and inability to move his arms and legs. He was admitted to the clinic as an emergency. His physical status showed no abnormalities. The local status presented with roughly expressed cervical vertebral syndrome. Neurological examina...

Figure 1 CT-scan showed right frontal extra-axial collections suggesting an acute extradural hematoma (white arrows) associated to chronic subdural hematoma (black arrows). However, craniotomy showed that the supposed chronic subdural hematoma was a typical subdural empyema. This image illustrates the possible association between epidural hematoma and subdural empyema in patients with craniofac...